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...Gromyko is sent every day to prod him with a sharp sickle, now on his beak, now under his wing, now in his tail feathers. All the time the eagle keeps quite still. But it would be a great mistake to suppose that nothing is going on inside the breast of the eagle. I venture to give this friendly hint to my old wartime comrade, Marshal Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Year of the Bullbat | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Drawing deep down into their reserves, the Varsity took the quarter-mile with ease, and the final free style relay was captured by a motley crew that included a distance man and a breast-stroker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mermen Trounce M.I.T., 58-17, in Baptismal Clash | 12/19/1946 | See Source »

...relay isn't what's wrong, although that's what the figures seem to say," remarked Gordon. Just where the tragic flaw fell thrice, however, he refused to state, considering such information of tactical importance. Other channels, nevertheless, report of a very weak breast-stroking staff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skaters Open Campaign as Underdogs to B. U.; Mermen Picked as Heavy Favorites Over M. I. T. | 12/18/1946 | See Source »

...Peace was based. The Russian Orthodox Church excommunicated him; the Communist Lenin wrote incisively: "On the one hand, an extraordinarily powerful, direct and sincere protest against social lies and hypocrisy; on the other, a Tolstoyan, that is, a wornout, historical sniveler called the Russian intellectual, who, publicly beating his breast, cries: 'I am bad, I am vile, but I am striving after moral self-perfection. . . .' " Yet Stalin's government has hailed Tolstoy as a literary hero of the Russian people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tolstoy, Troglodyte | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...Breast stroker Chuck Hoelzer will be able to give any opposition a battle and makes up a formidable event, paired as he is with Walt Lagarenne. Other promising freestylers are Milt Buzby, Bob Goodspeed, who was here in 1943, Norman Watkins, and Steven Wise...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/29/1946 | See Source »

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